What is "structuralist"

Usage examples of "structuralist".

In particular, I now find structuralism rather more interesting than poststructuralism, and to reflect this I have added a new chapter on narratology, a branch of structuralist theory which lends itself very readily to enjoyable and thought-provoking practical applications.

Kennedy goes on to devise a system that is heavily indebted to structuralist narratology rather than reader-response.

By structuralist epistemology here we mean the reinvention of a functionalist analysis in the realm of the human sciences, a method that effectively sacrifices the dynamic of the system, the creative temporality of its movements, and the ontological substance of cultural and social reproduction.

Marxist critic, or a structuralist, or a stylistician, or some such, then you are probably a liberal humanist, whether or not you admit or recognise this.

The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss applied the structuralist outlook to the interpetation of myth.

Barthes, who applied the structuralist method to the general field of modern culture.

I will enlist your help as a co-writer of this structuralist critique.

So instead of going straight into the content, in the liberal humanist manner, the structuralist presents a series of parallels, echoes, reflections, patterns, and contrasts, so that the narrative becomes highly schematised, is translated, in fact, into what we might call a verbal diagram.

What we are looking for, as we attempt a structuralist critique, and where we expect to find it, can be indicated as in the diagram below.

They use the technique of close textual analysis, but often employ structuralist and post-structuralist techniques, especially to mark a break with the inherited tradition of close textual analysis within the framework of conservative cultural and social assumptions.

This reductive singleness is the object of a satire that makes parallels between the politics of communist self-reference and the discourse of structuralist criticism.

Kundera, the strategies by which Soviet discourse imposes its centralization and uniformity on Czech history are those that structuralist and deconstructionist discourses impose upon chosen texts.

He was ironic and complex, and egalitarian in manner, and she admired his innovative if grandiose structuralist theories.

It does not seem, however, that Foucault-even when he powerfully grasped the biopolitical horizon of society and defined it as a field of immanence-ever succeeded in pulling his thought away from that structuralist epistemology that guided his research from the beginning.

I met the right teacher, Lester Gorn, who is probably the greatest creative-writing teacher in the United States, and a world-class structuralist critic.